An Action Packed Day Three of Boys Select 17 Camp

Day three of the Boys Select 17 Player Development Camp was the first day without practices, and the second day of game competition. This left the door open for a lot of team bonding. Team Kelly was able to go play a game of kickball, keeping things light and having fun playing a different sport.

The teams also attended a presentation on nutrition, with Grey, Forest, Gold and Black attending in the morning and White, Royal, Columbia, Kelly, Red and Navy attending the evening session. The points of emphasis were to learn how to properly fuel your body for maximum performance.

The games were action packed, and a recap a box score of each game can be found below. Our highlight of the day came from Cameron Berg, who wasted no time putting the puck in the back of the net in the first game of the day,

Highlight of the Day

Today's Photos

Today's Games

White 6, Royal 5: 11 different players scored in the first game of the day. White was able to hold on and win despite Royal pulling their goalie for an extra attacker. Brendan Poshak collected four points on a goal and three assists for White. Frank Jenkins, Luke Kron, Brendan Lee, Ryan Kirwan and Zarchary Michaelis were the other goal scorers. Cameron Berg, Mark Estapa, Cade Lemmer, Nicholas Ostbloom and Aidan Thompson scored for Royal.

Columbia 6, Kelly 2: Jonny Meiers collected three assists as Columbia earned the win over Kelly. Thomas Weis and Blake Humphrey joined Meiers with multi-point efforts, each recording a goal and an assist. Bret Link, Tanner Kelly, Kyle Kukkonen and Riley Duran also scored for Columbia. Ronan Walsh and Tristan Rand scored for Kelly, and Colin Purcell made 12 saves.

Red 4, Navy 3 (SO): Alexandros Gaffney scored a goal and recorded two assists in Red's shootout victory over Navy. Avery Hayes and Donald Kempf scored the other two regulation goals for Red. Artem Shlaine, Kyle Contessa and Karsen Dorwart were the goal scorers for Navy,

Grey 6, Forest 3: Tristan Broz recorded a hat trick for Team Grey as the defeated Forest 6-3, Matthew DeBoer, Carson Bantle and Robert Hyde also scored for Grey, while Gustave Bylin stopped 13 of 14 shots. On the Forest side, John Waldron also recorded a hat trick. Tucker Tynan made 14 stops in net.

Gold 4, Black 2: Team Gold earned their second win in as many days. For the second straight game, Blake Biondi scored a goal. He was joined on the stat sheet by Tiernan Shoudy, Nicholas O'Hanisain and Peter Kramer, who scored an empty netter to seal the game. For Black, Matthew Sredl and Alexander Farmer scored.

Team Leader Spotlight: Erik Hildreth

At the USA Hockey Player Development camps, each team has a team leader that is responsible for a number of different things, including coordinating a daily schedule and team bonding exercises for their team.

Eric Hildreth is the team leader for Team Red, and he is in his 15th year doing the USA Hockey Player Development Camp. The Virginia native coached hockey for 30 years.

"I do these camps to give back to hockey. I stopped coaching hockey a couple of years ago, so this is the only hockey I do at this point. For one week a year, I get to be involved again, so it's always a great time."